Tags: Classical Music Composition.
Farewell to America (w/o op.) is the name of a waltz composed by Johann Strauss II. In the immediate wake of the composer’s visit to the United States in the summer of 1872 when he conducted several times in Boston and New York no less than seven publishers issued waltzes supposedly composed by Strauss. Only two from the total of nine compositions that were published are known to have been performed by Strauss during his tour of the United States: the Jubilee Waltz and the Manhattan Waltzes.